Trust and Social Cohesion

Lutz F Krebs

This study introduces an agent‐based model of the interactions between members of an ethnically heterogeneous society, using inter‐ethnic trust and trust based on transaction history as the explaining factors. Preliminary tests of the model dynamics show that single shocks to social and inter‐ethnic trust do not destabilize society sufficiently to explain the outbreak of violence. They do however provide a tool for group leaders to engage themselves as catalysts of distrust.

URL: http://www.icr.ethz.ch/publications/krebs2007trust.pdf

Krebs, Lutz F. 2007. “Trust and Social Cohesion.”

@article{trust-and-social-cohesion,
   title = {Trust and Social Cohesion},
   author = {Krebs, Lutz F},
   publisher = {Prepared for presentation at the 4th ECPR General Conference, Pisa, Italy, September 6-8, 2007},
   year = {2007},
   abstract = {This study introduces an agent-based model of the interactions between members of an ethnically heterogeneous society, using inter-ethnic trust and trust based on transaction history as the explaining factors. Preliminary tests of the model dynamics show that single shocks to social and inter-ethnic trust do not destabilize society sufficiently to explain the outbreak of violence. They do however provide a tool for group leaders to engage themselves as catalysts of distrust.},
   URL = {http://www.icr.ethz.ch/publications/krebs2007trust.pdf}
}